I'm not in favor of releasing any violent prisoners or even opportunist criminals at a time like this. Actually, it seems silly to release prisoners unless you're going to insure they have some place to go. Law Enforcement is burdened enough. All walks of life are being hit by this virus.
If you let them out then where are the prisoners going to go? Are they going to join the huge homeless population now staying in the convention centers and CV-19 shelters springing up? Or go stay with their families in isolation? What about the increase in Domestic Violence from being isolated with your newly released prisoner? Is someone going to keep track of what happened to them once released? It seems there's no gain for the general public in this idea? It's not like the prisoners are going to get out and get a good job when everybody else has lost their jobs. What's the point then to protect who? MOO, once we get reliable testing procedures working smoothly, then positive CV-19 prisoners can be separated within the jail and prison facilities. It's possible I don't understand this problem from all angles. Am I going to have to buy a gun to protect myself from the prisoners we're talking about releasing?
NJ April 10th
Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday he will sign an executive order allowing some state prison inmates at risk of contracting COVID-19 to be placed on temporary home confinement or expedited parole.
“Under this order, certain low-risk inmates whose age or health status puts them at particular risk for COVID-19, who had been perhaps denied parole within the last year, or whose sentences are to expire within the next three months, may be placed — and I say ‘may be’ — on temporary home confinement or granted parole, if already eligible, through an expedited process,’’ Murphy said at his daily news briefing on the COVID-19 public health emergency.
“I want to stress that no one convicted of a serious crime, such as murder, sexual assault, among others, will be eligible for consideration,’’ the governor said.
Corrections officials will be setting up “a robust process’’ to determine whether each inmate who is potentially eligible for release under his order can be safely placed on home confinement and can be provided with necessary services, including medical services, and housing.
“No one who cannot meet these standards will be released,’’ Murphy said.
Inmates placed on home confinement still will be under the supervision of correctional staff, Murphy said.
Coronavirus NJ: Murphy calls for release of some inmates
March 27th
A Megan’s Law violator who murdered a 16-year-old girl 45 years ago, two convicted arsonists and a man who directed his 7-year-old daughter to perform oral sex on him are among Monmouth County Jail inmates who could go free under a court order designed to minimize COVID-19 outbreaks at county lockups.
Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni is fighting to keep those and six other jail inmates behind bars, after state Supreme Court Justice Stuart Rabner on Sunday signed an
order calling for the release of certain county jail inmates.
Gramiccioni so far has secured orders preventing the release of seven other inmates who fall within the parameters of Rabner’s release order, according to Charles Webster, a spokesman for the prosecutor. But, the prosecutor’s challenges to the release of four other inmates were unsuccessful, and those inmates have been freed from the jail, Webster said.
Coronavirus NJ: Arsonists, pedophile and murderer-turned-Megan’s Law violator could go free
